The Workshops will be facilated by Galway poet Kevin Higgins who is currently running a poetry workshop at the Galway Arts Centre. Those wishing to attend are invited to submit a minimum of three poems which can be used as practical material for the workshops. Over the six week period various aspects of poetry will be covered, how to craft a poem including subject, style and metre will be examined and participants will be invited to share their own written poetry.

The cost of the Masterclass on the 16th October is €15 and for those wishing to continue on for the six weeks the cost is €35 payable on date of commencement. Send your poems together with contact details to the Limerick City Arts Offrice, City Hall, Merchants Quay, Limerick.

For further information contact Sheila Deegan at sdeegan@limerickcity.ie or Barney Sheehan at whitehousepoets@eircom.net

KEVIN HIGGINS was born in London of Irish parents in April 1967, but grew up in Galway on the west coast of Ireland.

He began writing poetry in 1996 and since then his work has appeared widely in Ireland, Britain, Belgium, New Zealand, Canada and the United States in publications such as Metre, The Shop, Orbis, The Sunday Tribune, Poetry Ireland Review, Connections, The Frogmore Papers, The Interpreter's House, Potpourri (USA), River King Poetry Supplement (USA), The Reater, The Stinging Fly and www.nthposition.com. His first collection 'The Boy With No Face' will be published in January 2005, and is to be Salmon Poetry's first book of 2005.

In 2000 Kevin was chosen to take part in the Poetry Ireland Introductions series of readings. Kevin has also read his poetry at the Cuirt International Festival of Literature, The Bowery Poetry Club (New York City) and The Poetry Society (London). In June 2002 he was a finalist in the Dublin Writers' Festival/Rattlebag Poetry Slam. His work has also been broadcast on RTE's Rattlebag and Sunday Miscellany as well as on local radio.

Kevin is also a widely published critic. He regularly reviews poetry for The Galway Advertiser and has also reviewed poetry for Metre, Poetry Quarterly Review (UK), Arts West magazine and New Hope International Review.